An audiobook memoir

A Walk

The Story of a Lost and Found Life and Love

Cover of A Walk — yellow ginkgo leaves covering a San Francisco sidewalk, two figures walking away.

Listen to the opening

4:29

The book

Two cities, forty years apart.

In San Francisco, a man walks. He has a life he can describe precisely — a house, a marriage to Diane, the ordinary weight of a Tuesday. And he has another life, further back, in a Tehran that no longer exists: Leila, a family, a country on the edge of becoming something else.

A Walk moves between them without asking permission. What begins as a memory of leaving becomes something harder to name — a question about which of two lives a person actually lived, and whether the difference is one you can still find out.

Where to listen

Rolling out to Spotify, Libro.fm, Google Play, Barnes & Noble and other retailers over the coming weeks.

Ask your library

A Walk is being distributed to libraries worldwide through OverDrive, Libby and hoopla. If you'd rather borrow than buy, ask your local branch to order it — most libraries will stock a title a patron requests. The ISBN below is all they need.

ISBN9780466965549

About the author

Zubin Cesar is the pen name of Hamid Najafi, a classical singer, composer and engineer. Born in Iran and long settled in the United States, he has sung opera, released three albums, and produced live music events across North America. A Walk is his first book.

Notes from Zubin Media

Occasional letters on the writing, upcoming readings, and what comes next. No schedule, no noise.